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Currently receive this message while attempting to install from AUR with yay:

==> ERROR: Cannot find the svgo binary required for optimizing SVG image files. -> error making: svgo-exit status 15 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: svgo - exit status 15

This is the same error as the aur/nodejs-svgo-git package.

@Tjuh That looks like something is wrong with your system, not this package. I compiled this the other day and just did it again now to check. In a clean chroot using makechrootpkg this builds just fine (if you want a really easy way to build that way install devtools then run extra-x86_64-build instead of makepkg to build). As for your system, perhaps reinstall npm / nodejs?

Won't build;

==> Starting package()...
/home/tjuh/Desktop/svgo/PKGBUILD: line 17: 20040 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) npm install -g --prefix "${pkgdir}/usr" "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tgz"
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
==> Removing installed dependencies...

Thanks, fixed in 2.2.2-2 (what a lucky number) – https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=svgo&id=5c5bc629b2cd8662125731d1e1840c3008387431

npm install line should not have --user root as new guidelines suggest

@1ace

Same issue with package semver

This package installs a bunch of files in /usr/lib/node_modules/root/ (as well as the normal /usr/lib/node_modules/svgo/), which conflicts with vscode-html-languageserver for instance as that package tries to do the same; I'm not sure if this "root" module is really a thing that should be installed ("root" may very well be a placeholder name), but I'm guessing neither packages should be doing this :)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the npm install line have --user root passed to it, per the Arch wiki? The current PKGBUILD causes the files to be owned by the installing user.

Edit: Also, you specify that the license is MIT; however, Arch takes MIT as a special case of a custom license, in that you need to install the license in the PKGBUILD because it has a copyright line. See the Arch wiki for details. I happened to notice these issues because I ran namcap on the package.

I've seen this issue in other npm packages, it didn't show up in my build though.

I wanted to ask for a fix of the permission issues: there are lots of files and directories with mode 777. But installing a second time fixes that, I'm not sure what's happening.